What is Pure’s Accessibility Support?

Pure aspires to meet all accessibility guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 AA and the U.S. Section 508 Standards of the Federal Rehabilitation Act, as well as similar standards enacted by countries around the globe. Customers may download the VPAT to see compliance with specific guidelines.

Web Accessibility and Usability Features

Pure includes features that benefit everyone including full-text search, browse and filter by content type or specialty, and bookmark-friendly content. Pure features a simple, flexible, and consistent user interface design. We provide content in a number of different formats, including HTML and PDF.

Screen Reader Friendly

The user interface and all content is available in HTML which is compatible with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA and Apple's VoiceOver.

Pages are well structured with headings, and lists which allow users of assistive technology to easily jump around pages and understand content.

Pages employ ARIA(Accessibility for Rich Internet Applications) to enhance navigation, orientation and labeling for users of screen readers and other assistive technology.

User interface and content images have alternative text descriptions to convey the meaning of an image to screen readers.

All books and journals are available as PDFs with searchable text.

Forms used can be accessed and submitted easily. They are properly labeled and provide good instructions.

Tips for Users of Assistive Technology

The HTML format for journal articles and book chapters is the most compatible with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver. From search results navigate by headings to, select an article title or book chapter to be taken to the HTML version of the content. Once in an HTML article or chapter, users with screen readers can easily bring up a list of functional regions or landmarks on the page as follows:

In JAWS, use INSERT+CONTROL+SEMICOLON

In NVDA, use NVDA + F7

In VoiceOver, choose 'landmarks' in the 'web rotor', then finger flicking up or down will move to the next or previous landmark

The outline of a particular article can be found by navigating to the complimentary information region.

The start of a full text article can be found by navigating to the main region.